“It’s almost impossible to envision the independence we might need when nobody in Washington knows where they will be come January, and pots of gold await in the Bay Area.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
It is almost impossible to envision the independence we might need in Washington when nobody there knows where they will be come January and lucrative jobs await in the Bay Area.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, We can’t trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI, paragraph 24.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Causal claim
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- when nobody in Washington knows where they will be come January, and pots of gold await in the Bay Area (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
- almost impossible to envision (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- the independence we might need (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- when nobody in Washington knows where they will be come January, and pots of gold await in the Bay Area
- almost impossible to envision
- the independence we might need
Our interpretation
None added.
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Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
Both AI providers screened this claim on their own and found that public evidence could not settle it. It is recorded and attributed, not scored.
Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found this too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
Limitations
None recorded.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, We can’t trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI
It’s almost impossible to envision the independence we might need when nobody in Washington knows where they will be come January, and pots of gold await in the Bay Area.
- Where
- paragraph 24
- Published
- 2024-04-27
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-we-cant-trust-the-fox-to-guard-the-ef769d-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
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